Tesla's informed customers who've placed $50,000 deposits down for their Roadsters, the price of options they ordered has gone up. Now they need to fork over more money or lose a shot at owning one. »1/20/09 1:00pm 1/20/09 1:00pm

Given the situation with
Tesla Motors »10/22/08 10:00am 10/22/08 10:00am lately, you know, , word of firings of "25-30% of their total staff of 300 employees and contractors" and the closing of the Detroit location (more accurately, the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, MI) , it's no wonder an anonymous reader decided to head out to their Rochester…

UPDATE: Tesla notifies Detroit workers already-in-the-know they were laid off two days ago...today! »10/16/08 4:00pm 10/16/08 4:00pm In a sign of what this new might bring, employees in the Metro Detroit branch of electric car maker were laid off via a blog post. Yesterday, we reported that Tesla would be , which included shutting down the office…

Tesla has announced the company will be slowing down production plans for the
Tesla Model S »10/15/08 4:15pm 10/15/08 4:15pm sedan project until the government forks over some dough. This is just part of the news coming out of , which also announced that they've (and replaced him with main benefactor Elon Musk) and will be making serious cutbacks .…